Word: succession
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Since McCain-Palin declared war on the media, some pundits have said running against the press is a loser's strategy. In fact, it would be malpractice not to. Even leaving aside the success of Nixon-Agnew vs. the "nattering nabobs of negativism" and of Bush-Cheney vs. Dan Rather, the most important audience for media-bashing is not voters but the media themselves...
...Coens' entente with genre conventions earned Oscars for Best Picture, Screenplay and Supporting Actor (for Javier Bardem as the pursuer). Those mulish brothers had proved they knew how to play a game appreciated by the film establishment and the audience; No Country was by far their biggest box-office success...
...policies following an incident involving two police officers last month.Smith has yet to select a new diversity dean. He said that he is consulting with Senior Vice Provost Judith D. Singer and other FAS officials on “how best to configure the position for success.”Government professor Susan J. Pharr will serve as chair of the Standing Committee of Women in the fall, and Organismic and Evolutionary Biology professor Elena M. Kramer will serve as chair in the spring, after returning from sabbatical.In a written statement, Pharr called Martin’s exit...
Labour's missteps and infighting account for some of this success. The rest is down to Cameron: his reinvention of his cantankerous party and his reinvention of himself as an avatar of the modern age. "David is comfortable with Britain as it is today," says shadow-cabinet member David Willetts. "It's essential for making the party more electable that you're not trying to re-create Britain...
...party of privilege, Labour the champions of the working class. But Margaret Thatcher, a radical Conservative, kicked against the establishment that tried to block her ascent; her policies appealed to aspirational working-class voters. Her successor, John Major, who came from a very modest background, nicely epitomized Thatcher's success. Blair, educated like Cameron at a private school and Oxford, won three terms as the leader of New Labour, a party as geared to middle-class interests as to workers' rights...